AAPG Bulletin, V. 87, No. 5 (May 2003),

Copyright 2003. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

Geochemical characteristics and correlation of oil and nonmarine source rocks from Mongolia

Cari L. Johnson,¹ Todd J. Greene,² David A. Zinniker,³ J. Michael Moldowan,⁴ Marc S. Hendrix,⁵ Alan R. Carroll⁶

¹Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Building 320, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305-2115; current address: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 135 South 1460 East, Browning Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112-0011; email: [email protected]
²Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Building 320, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305-2115; current address: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, 1201 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380
³Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Building 320, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305-2115
⁴Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Building 320, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305-2115
⁵Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, 59812
⁶Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St., Madison, Wisconsin, 53706

AUTHORS

Cari Johnson is an assistant professor at the University of Utah. She received geology degrees from Carleton College (B.A., 1996) and Stanford University (Ph.D., 2002), where she also completed postdoctoral research on sequence stratigraphy of the San Joaquin basin. Her dissertation focused on the sedimentary record of Late Mezosoic extension in the China–Mongolia border region. She continues to conduct research in basin analysis, sedimentation and tectonics, and petroleum geology in east-central Asia and western North America.

Todd Greene attained a B.S. degree in earth sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz (1994) and a Ph.D. in geological sciences at Stanford University (2000). His dissertation focused on tectonics, sedimentology, organic geochemistry, and petroleum systems of the Turpan-Hami basin of northwestern China. He is currently employed by Anadarko Petroleum in Houston, Texas, where he is part of a regional studies team investigating basins and play types in the greater Rocky Mountains.

David A. Zinniker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. His research focuses on molecular fossils of plants and algae and their bearing upon ecology, evolution, depositional systems, and petroleum geology. His future projects include using molecular and macromolecular markers to study current ecological processes and events deep in geologic time.

J. Michael Moldowan attained a B.S. degree in chemistry from Wayne State University, 1968, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1972. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in marine natural products with Professor Carl Djerassi at Stanford University, he joined Chevron's Biomarker Group in 1974. Moldowan joined the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences of Stanford University as professor (research) in 1993.

Marc S. Hendrix received geology degrees from Wittenberg University (B.A., 1985), the University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.S., 1987), and Stanford University (Ph.D., 1992). He completed postdoctoral research at Stanford in 1994 and since has been a professor of geology at the University of Montana, Missoula. His research interests include sedimentary basins and paleoclimate studies, particularly in western North America and central Asia.

Alan Carroll conducts research on large lake basins in Asia and the western United States, focusing on their tectonic setting, sequence stratigraphy, and petroleum potential. He worked for three years as an exploration geologist for Sohio, and five years for Exxon Production Research. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.

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